Use of ICT in Cuban Educational System

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Use of ICT in Cuban Educational System

• MPh. Lidia Lauren Elías Hardy
• Higher Institute of Technologies and Applied
  Sciences (InSTEC)
• Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment
  (CITMA)
• Havana, Cuba
• laurenelias_at_yahoo.com, lauren_at_info.isctn.edu.cu

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Summary

• An Overview of the use of ICT in Cuban
  Educational System (Primary, Secondary and Pre
  university levels)
• The ICT in the Higher Education
• Physics and ICT in the Higher Education

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An Overview of the use of ICT in Cuban
Educational System

• The ICT in the Cuban Educational System have
  been introduced tacking into consideration
• The level (early education, primary, secondary or
  pre university)
• The class level (1st, 2nd, 3rd,7th,9th,12th)

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An Overview of the use of ICT in Cuban
Educational System (Primary Level)
Primary Level
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An Overview of the use of ICT in Cuban
Educational System (Secondary and Pre-University
Level)
Secondary Level
Pre-University Level
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ICT in Cuban Higher Education

• Two points of view
• Computing Matters in the curriculum
• Computing as tool

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ICT in Cuban Higher Education (Computing Matters
in the curriculum)

• All careers have Computing Director Programme
• The aim of Computing Director Programme is
  learning the mathematical and computing tools
  which will use the student after his graduation.
• The Computing Director Programme is different for
  different career

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ICT in Cuban Higher Education (Computing as Tool)

• Presentations by the professor in the lecture
  using MS Power Point.
• Presentations by the students in the seminar and
  the scientific student events using MS Power
  Point.
• Simulations
• Virtual Laboratories
• E-mail
• Virtual Library
• Software Development for different matters
• Distance Learning
• Web-site
• And others

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ICT in Cuban Higher Education (National Research
Programme on Computing in Higher Education)

• The Ministry of Higher Education leaders the
  National Research Programme on Computing in
  Higher Education
• Some topics of the Research Programme are
• Development of Software for Distance learning
• Development of Virtual Laboratories
• Development of Cuban Higher Education Network and
  its Management
• Others

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ICT in Cuban Higher Education (National Research
Program on Computing in Higher Education)

• Development of Virtual Laboratories
• Physics
• Chemistry
• Automatic Control
• Hydraulic
• Agronomy
• Others

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VIRTUAL INSTRUMENTATION AND COMPLEMENTARY
SIMULATION IN PHYSIC LABORATORY

• University of Havana
• Higher Polytechnic Institute José Antonio
  Echevarría (ISPJAE)
• Higher Institute of Technologies and Applied
  Sciences (InSTEC)
• Central University of Las Villas Martha Abreu
  (UCLV)
• University of Oriente (UO)

With the collaboration of CEATICEC Network (ALFA
Project)
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PROJECT COORDINATION
GENERAL COORDINATOR PhM. Irma Gladis González
Carmenate

• CENTRE COORDINATORS
• UH PhM. Irma Gladis González Carmenate
• ISPJAE PhD. Amparo Patiño Castro
• InSTEC PhM. Lidia Lauren Elías Hardy
• UCLV PhM. Carlos Mujica
• UO PhD. Faustino Repilado Ramírez

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APPLIED PROJECT

• TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION
• MULTIDISCIPLINE
• MULTIINSTITUTIONAL

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RESEARCH PROBLEM

• The lack of up to date equipment in the Physics
  laboratories means that alternative methods of
  teaching and learning need to be established to
  accommodate the entire curriculum.

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RESEARCH OBJECT

• The teaching and learning system of Physics
  disciplines in the upgrade careers.

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GENERAL GOAL

• Contribute to the improvement of Physics
  disciplines through the early, systemic and
  systematic incorporation of elements from
  experiences in the creation activity into theirs
  teaching contents.

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SPECIFIC GOAL

• Achieve the didactic-methodological design and
  technical assembly of laboratories for different
  Physics disciplines using ITC, incorporating in
  their contents the elements of the system of
  experience in the creation activity

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SOME OF MAIN PROBLEMS IN THE PHYSIC LABORATORIES

• Obsolete hardware.
• No replacement parts for some laboratories.
• The impossibility to show some physical phenomena
  and some variant of the physical process.
• Absence of some measuring instrumentation.
• Others.

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EXPECTED RESULTS

• Virtual Laboratories
• Virtual Instruments
• Simulations
• A pedagogical model for Physics Virtual
  Laboratory
• Methodologies for design, use and evaluation of
  Physics Virtual Laboratories
• Project Network and website

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Project Network and Websites
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PROJECT RESULTS
Front Panel of Microtron Automatic Control

• Virtual Instruments

Front Panel of Ceramic Characterization
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PROJECT ISSUES
Virtual Laboratory
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PROJECT RESULTS
Real Laboratory Computer as measuring instrument
Laboratory on Electromechanical Resonance
Now
Before
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PROJECT RESULTS

• Use of Applets and Physlet
• Video Laboratories
• Instructions for Real Laboratories